Police called to the scene found him lying in the side yard of his
tidy beige-and-white stucco home, dead from multiple gunshot wounds.

Laut
was athletic director at nearby Hueneme High School, a post he took a
year ago, said Principal Adrian Palazuelos. Before that, he served for
eight years as track coach at Hueneme High, and then left for one year
to take a coaching job at a school in Ventura.

Laut's late father was a longtime science teacher at Hueneme High, Palazuelos said.